Urban category: 4425 books
by Anne M. Cronin
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor advertising industry tells us about the commercial production of urban space, what industry practices reveal about contemporary capitalism, and how ads and billboard structures interface with spaces of the city
The Regional City
An Anglo-American Discussion of Metropolitan Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In this volume leaders in the fields of urban design and planning from both sides of the Atlantic examine the structure and functioning of the urban region, discuss the strategies and machinery required to make regional planning effective, compare experiences in urban renewal, and analyze the part...
Industrial Ruination, Community and Place
Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Abandoned factories, shipyards, warehouses, and refineries are features of many industrialized cities around the world. But despite their state of decline, these derelict sites remain vitally connected with the urban landscapes that surround them. In this enlightening new book, Alice Mah explores...
Urban Utopias
The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within...
Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces
Literary and Visual Narratives of the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and radically liberating Transición, the fact remains...
India's Middle Class
New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being in contemporary urban India.
Rich in ethnographic...
Where the River Burned
Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in...
Schools and Urban Revitalization
Rethinking Institutions and Community Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
New research in community development shows that institutions matter. Where the private sector disinvests from the inner city, public and nonprofit institutions step in and provide engines to economic revitalization and promote greater equity in society. Schools and Urban Revitalization collects emerging...
by Tim R. New
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more particularly urban threats. The first global overview and synthesis of the impacts of urbanisation on insects and their...
Negotiating the Mediated City
Everyday Encounters with Public Screens
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily lives. In more and more surprising locations, screens of various kinds appear within the sightlines of passers-by in contemporary cities. Outdoor advertisers target audiences which are...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2009
This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world. It discusses and makes recommendations on the best practice and strategy for urbanization of different types of meteorological and air quality models.
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by Daniel Matlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In July 1964, after a decade of intense media focus on civil rights protest in the Jim Crow South, a riot in Harlem abruptly shifted attention to the urban crisis embroiling America's northern cities. On the Corner revisits the volatile moment when African American intellectuals were thrust into the...
The Unseen Politics of Public Housing
Resident Councils, Communities, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) emphasizes the word “community” for building economic development, citizen participations, and revitalization of facilities and services in urban and rural areas. Resident Councils are one way to develop and build community among residents...
Sustainable City and Creativity
Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity and contributing to the new creative economy - has become central to most regional and urban development strategies in recent years. A creative city is...